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Well, take a man connected with the legislative class, directly by birth and indirectly by opportunities, give him at least enough taste not to be ashamed of poetry, give him also enough energy not to be ashamed of football, and add a profound satisfaction with Oxford in general and Balliol in particular, and there you are.

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— Compton Mackenzie, Sinister Street (1914) – the speaker is describing the "essential Balliol"

Source[edit]

Morris, Jan (2009) [1978]. The Oxford Book of Oxford. Oxford University Press. p. 315. ISBN 9780192804075.